JUNE 19: TENNIS AND OTHER SPORTS TIPS

DEFENDING champ Grigor Dimitrov bowed out with a whimper at Queen’s Club on Thursday and three big servers hope to bash their way to victory in the quarter-finals today.

Third seed Milos Raonic will be confident of maintaining his unbeaten record against Gilles Simon of France. The Canadian has won all three previous meetings and is 4-11 at Skybet to make it four while Simon is the 12-5 underdog (bet365).

South African giant Kevin Anderson is 3-7 at 888sport to follow up his scalp of Stan Wawrinka by beating Guillermo Garcia-Lopez and fellow big hitter John Isner is 4-5 at Ladbrokes to oust Viktor Troicki (13-10, BetVictor).

Andy Murray completes the last-eight line-up against Dimitrov’s conqueror Gilles Muller while the likes of Roger Federer and Tomas Berdych are in quarter-final action in Halle.

The group stage of the Snooker World Cup comes to an end today with Scotland and Wales all but assured of a quarter-final spot.

There’s also the likes of cycling, rugby league and county cricket on the agenda so post your sporting tips and chat here and good luck with your bets.

For Friday nights MLB
I’m liking the odds on Texas and the Twins, think they do have a good chance of winning their respective games.
Double of Blue Jays/Royals looks good again.
I think win for Pirates @ Nationals without harper(injured leg last night) doubt they will risk him

Dazid in regards to the Twins I’ll be backing Cubs over 8.5 hits @ 1.95. Hughes is like Samardzija and loves giving up hits.
Rangers are good value considering White Sox haven’t won in their last 7 games and Rangers have only lost 2 of their last 7.
Can’t say if Blue Jays/Royals is worth it as no price for Royals yet but don’t see why it wouldn’t come in again.
No price for the Pirates either but they should win too.

Texas are in great form and White Sox stink. They also score a lot of runs against lefties. But I would be cautious about going against Sale. If he brings his A-game, he is an elite class pitcher and unhittable (despite getting little run support). At those odds though it is a tempter!

Twins/Cubs is a close one but with Hughes on the mound for the Twins, who gives up as many, if not more hits that Samardzija does, the Cubbies could run wild despite not having home-field advantage in a inter-league game.

I think I saw someone tipping Halep on yesterdays thread, but I think i’ll put my neck on the line and tip her to get beaten.

As good as she is, I think this match may come down to how consistently Mladenovic can play. Halep is vulnerable to bit hitters on fast courts, and grass is probably her least favourite surface.

These two have met once before, on an indoor hard court last year, and Mladenovic won in straight sets. I also have Halep’s straight sets defeat to Makarova at the Aussie open in mind, which is a prime example of how Halep can get upset by a player with a heavy serve and groundstrokes.

Halep’s consistency could prove too much if Mladenovic doesn’t stay focussed, but she’s been serving well enough this week to suggest she will be a tough customer for Simona.

I haven’t seen either play this week, so i’ll be interested to hear the views of anyone who has, but this is worth a risk from where im sitting!

gaelic Sports(football) Offaly to beat Waterford tipped earlier in the week at 1.54
Handicap is out now, I
Offaly -2.5 pays 1.80
Offaly -3.5 pays 2.20
both are worth backing as I expect Offaly to win by at least 5 points

Something strange is happening, why my tips don’t get through anymore? Yesterday I posted 2 tips and now I was about to tip Muller +1,5 sets @2.70, great value tip. His serve was superb last game so that’s why I was on this.

The Robins host the Wolves tonight at Craven Park and it is a huge game for the home side as they push for a top 8 finish, it is the Wolves who are the 4/7 favourites

Hull KR will be without skipper Terry Campese which is a massive blow, whilst Warrington will be a little lighter in the pack with Anthony England suspended and Ben Currie ruled out. Currie as been a star performer for the Wolves this season but the Campese injury is the biggest lost for me.

Warrington are giving up minus 6 pts on the handicap and with only winning 3 away from home all season it could be risky, and Hull KR have only lost twice at home all season. I do think without Campese the robins could struggle here and it could be an away win and a huge dent to the Robins playoffs hopes.

In the tryscorer market this guy will be familiar and it is Joel Monaghan, he isn’t as prolific this season as in previous seasons but he as been playing in the centre, yet still boast 9 tries in 15 games and he scored in the reverse fixture earlier in the season, he is 4/5 Skybet, however I am taking the 13/8 with the same firm Monaghan scores and Warrington win. For the Robins I am taking full back Kieron Dixon he as 11 tries in 13 games and 7 in his last 4 games. He is 6/4 Ladbrokes.

My final selection comes from the non televised game between Wigan and Salford. Wigan will be looking to bounce back from their derby defeat and I think they will win big tonight. They not played at home in over a month and they score points for fun at the DW. Winger Dom Manfredi returns to the team tonight after injury and while he is too short anytime I will be on him to grab a brace. He as scored 12 tries in 9 games and scored in each of his last seven games including a brace and two hatricks. He is 7/4 for a brace at Ladbrokes.

Only had 2 out of 5 before I left after game 4, a bit gutted as every one of the bets I posted for game 4 landed in game 5 lol.

Good coming back to the Warriors winning outright @ 7/2 :), and the pre finals bets I posted. A large stake on the -1.5 games handicap @ EVS and Lebrons top points scorer @ 11/10 , the correct score of 4-1 warriors lost though but I’m not concerned with that one

Lots of guys catching on to the NBA Towards the end so I’m guessing there’s gonna be a lot of hoops men come next season , and to the guys who have just started watching the basketball around playoff time and thought that was profitable just wait to the regular season lads that’s where the money’s at it gets hard in the conference finals and the finals but everything before that is a breeze wich has been proven

Now then! The 30/1 big servers 6-fold is on! Just need Isner now. the last leg so often blows these things, but hopefully set one will go to a tiebreak and it will be easy to cover, or covering now is another option. I just did a small stake so won’t bother!

Would not had place this bet if ward had not had a 19 month lay off , he’s gonna want to put some rounds under his belt and this has a great chance of going the distance and is also a good price , smiths not really a good boxer and is nowhere near the level of Ward but I think he will just about hang on with him

Would reccomend looking at cover in the later rounds if the price is good enough

I have gone large on this one as like the look of it mentioned above I think the Ward fight will go the distance anyway and Porter/broner should go the distance too ,The only chance that’s has not happening is if Porter gets a stoppage before it but I can’t see that happening

im all over ward on decision, i think its unlikely but good value, groves and degale stopped smith in a few rounds when they were starting out, so you think ward the best boxer in the world should be able to stop him regardless of ring rust.

Mlac You’re right mate it’s worth a crack @ 13/8 , smith will get bullied all fight no doubt about it I think we’re more or less betting on how smiths going to approach the fight as we all know what Ward is going to do , ive seen to manys fight were world class fighters come back from lay offs and it goes the distance so I fancy the chances of it landing

Can’t wait for Ward / broner mate will be some fight that , I’ve changed my mind too many times on who’s going to win that one so I’m not having a punt on the winner

I’ve been looking at lemieux too if he’s going to win he’s going to knock him out the mans brutal, I have seen n’jikam fight though and he’s a decent fighter but that’s a good value bet